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1970–71 League of Ireland

football league season

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1755052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Below are the statistics of League of Ireland in the 1970/1971 season.

Overview

The championship was contested by 14 teams. Cork Hibernians won the title after beating Shamrock Rovers 3–1 in a play-off. The play-off was held on 25 April 1971 in Dalymount Park. Miah Dennehy (2) and Dave Wigginton scored for Cork Hibernians. Mick Leech scored for Shamrock Rovers.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1970–71 League of Ireland” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around League, Ireland and football.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with League, Ireland and football providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1970–71 League of Ireland”, the useful work is to connect “football league season” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1755052. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1971.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow 1970–71 League of Ireland primary sources, 1970–71 League of Ireland archive and League research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “1970–71 League of Ireland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.